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Articles by PIEBALDconsult (28 articles found)

Average article rating: 3.54

Files and Folders

PIEBALDdiff
Last Updated: 21 Sep 2009   Page Views: 2,984   Rating: 3.29/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 3.14   Bookmark Count: 6
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A line-by-line file diff utility

Database

Accesing CommandTimeout properties in a TableAdapter
Last Updated: 9 Feb 2006   Page Views: 39,221   Rating: 4.53/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.72   Bookmark Count: 16
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Describes adding public properties to a TableAdapter to access the CommandTimeouts of the private DataAdapter.
DatabaseAccessor
Last Updated: 23 Aug 2007   Page Views: 45,701   Rating: 4.32/5    Votes: 19   Popularity: 5.52   Bookmark Count: 75
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A simple base class that encapsulates basic database access functionality
Database Connector
Last Updated: 28 Jan 2009   Page Views: 7,717   Rating: 3.60/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 3.60   Bookmark Count: 26
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A system of plug-ins that provide very simple database access

.NET Framework

ApplyFormat
Last Updated: 9 Mar 2009   Page Views: 4,216   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00   Bookmark Count: 5
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A method to apply multiple formats to a value

C#

TimeRanger -- Allows foreaching across a time interval
Last Updated: 9 Feb 2007   Page Views: 18,561   Rating: 3.80/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 3.43   Bookmark Count: 23
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A class that allows foreach to enumerate various points within the time interval defined by two DateTime objects
Enum Utilities
Last Updated: 24 Feb 2008   Page Views: 23,123   Rating: 4.52/5    Votes: 23   Popularity: 6.15   Bookmark Count: 84
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Various methods for working with enumerations
EnumOperators
Last Updated: 22 May 2008   Page Views: 7,641   Rating: 4.35/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 3.39   Bookmark Count: 22
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A class to help ease the burden of not being able to specify enum as a generic constraint
EnumTree
Last Updated: 12 Jun 2008   Page Views: 5,172   Rating: 3.33/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.00   Bookmark Count: 11
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A class and attribute to allow accessing enum values as a tree
TypeTransmogrifier
Last Updated: 13 Jun 2008   Page Views: 7,345   Rating: 3.83/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.83   Bookmark Count: 14
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Allows mapping of types to enumerated values.
.NET Rational (fraction) value type using Decimals, written in C#
Last Updated: 24 Jan 2006   Page Views: 13,343   Rating: 2.12/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 1.48   Bookmark Count: 10
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Implements a Rational datatype.
DateTruncate
Last Updated: 14 Nov 2006   Page Views: 7,906   Rating: 2.70/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 2.10   Bookmark Count: 5
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
This article describes my DateTruncate function.
ThreadQueue -- A queue for threads that allows asynchronous execution and a time limit
Last Updated: 6 Dec 2006   Page Views: 18,873   Rating: 4.14/5    Votes: 9   Popularity: 3.95   Bookmark Count: 35
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Describes my ThreadQueue class and related classes.
SetServiceDescription
Last Updated: 14 Jan 2008   Page Views: 8,564   Rating: 2.82/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 1.97   Bookmark Count: 8
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A method for setting the "description" of a Windows Service.
Versioner: An AssemblyInfo version incrementer
Last Updated: 9 Jun 2006   Page Views: 18,464   Rating: 2.83/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 2.39   Bookmark Count: 6
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A simple C# program that will increment the AssemblyVersion attribute of an AssemblyInfo.cs file.
NonNullable Class Wrapper
Last Updated: 11 Apr 2008   Page Views: 9,590   Rating: 4.47/5    Votes: 17   Popularity: 5.50   Bookmark Count: 14
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A wrapper to place the burden of checking a class reference for null on the calling method rather than the called method.
Parsomatic
Last Updated: 8 Dec 2008   Page Views: 4,765   Rating: 3.67/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.75   Bookmark Count: 12
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A Dictionary of Parse methods for several datatypes
A Simple, Infix to Reverse Polish Notation Transformer, Written in C#
Last Updated: 10 Mar 2009   Page Views: 15,797   Rating: 2.73/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 2.46   Bookmark Count: 7
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Transforms a mathematical expression from Infix notation to Reverse Polish notation
ProgressDialog: for executing long-running code with some thread safety
Last Updated: 23 May 2006   Page Views: 26,757   Rating: 2.48/5    Votes: 7   Popularity: 2.09   Bookmark Count: 35
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A dialog for executing long-running code on a thread (written in C#).

XML

XmlBuilder
Last Updated: 20 Oct 2008   Page Views: 5,479   Rating: 3.40/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 2.38   Bookmark Count: 9
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Wraps an XmlDocument to simplify formatting flat data into XML
Using XML/XSLT with the "C Preprocessor"
Last Updated: 7 May 2007   Page Views: 11,417   Rating: 3.52/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 2.74   Bookmark Count: 6
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
How to misuse XML/XSL to do what not even the

Algorithms & Recipes

A Set class
Last Updated: 20 Nov 2006   Page Views: 22,558   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 4.00   Bookmark Count: 20
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A Set class using a System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary to hold its elements.

Programming Tips

Testing for Empty String
Last Updated: 21 Feb 2008   Page Views: 11,395   Rating: 2.97/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 3.10   Bookmark Count: 8
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A brief comparison of techniques of testing for empty strings

String handling

Untabify and Tabify
Last Updated: 16 Jan 2009   Page Views: 4,078   Rating: 3.40/5    Votes: 4   Popularity: 2.05   Bookmark Count: 2
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Untabify and Tabify Extension Methods for intending code.
RegexTester
Last Updated: 20 Aug 2009   Page Views: 3,402   Rating: 4.56/5    Votes: 8   Popularity: 4.11   Bookmark Count: 26
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Presenting a test bed for .NET Regular Expressions

Code Generation

GenOmatic
Last Updated: 9 Mar 2009   Page Views: 4,755   Rating: 3.57/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 1.70   Bookmark Count: 10
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A console application to generate enumerations from a database query
Compiling Source Code from a String
Last Updated: 19 Aug 2009   Page Views: 2,860   Rating: 3.22/5    Votes: 6   Popularity: 2.51   Bookmark Count: 18
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
A method that uses a CodeDomProvider to compile program code from a string into an Assembly.

Design and Architecture

LimitedQueue
Last Updated: 23 Dec 2008   Page Views: 6,805   Rating: 4.09/5    Votes: 10   Popularity: 4.09   Bookmark Count: 12
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)   
Wrapping a built-in type when deriving is not a suitable solution, and why

PIEBALDconsult


Member 		BSCS 1992 Wentworth Institute of Technology

Originally from the Boston (MA) area. Lived in SoCal for a while. Now in the Phoenix (AZ) area.

OpenVMS enthusiast, ISO 8601 evangelist, photographer, opinionated SOB

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"Wrong is evil, and it must be defeated." – Jeff Ello

"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logical thinking, and on pedantic exactness." -- Nigel Shaw


"Omit needless local variables." -- Strunk... had he taught programming

"DON'T BE LIBERAL IN WHAT YOU ACCEPT!"

"Software Engineers don't have Trophy Wives; they have Presentation Layers."

"We learn more from our mistakes than we do from getting it right the first time."

"I'm an old dog and I like old tricks."

"Sometimes the envelope pushes back and sometimes you get a really nasty paper cut."

"A method shall have one and only one return statement."

My first rule of debugging: "If you get a different error message, you're making progress."

My golden rule of database management: "Do not unto others' databases as you would not have done unto yours."

My general rule of software development: "Design should be top-down, but implementation should be bottom-up."

"Today's heresy is tomorrow's dogma."
or
"Today's dogma is yesterday's heresy."

"The registry is evil."

"Every tool is a hammer."
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